Are gas prices still low where you live?

@TheHorse (207432)
Walnut Creek, California
May 23, 2020 2:50pm CST
Gas prices are always high in California, relative to the rest of the nation (I'm not sure about New York). It's kind of ironic, because we have lots of refineries here, and we can sometimes smell the fumes they belch out. My sense of time is screwed up right now, but it feels like it was about a year ago when some stations here were selling Regular for close to $4.00/gallon. I chirped a few months ago when prices dropped. At that time I was paying $2.85 at "my station." Chevron (right by the freeway) was still charging about $3:25 A few weeks ago (maybe even a couple of months), I noticed that the price at my station had dropped to $2.59. It has remained there ever since. How are gas prices where you live? Have they hit a bottom and stayed the same for awhile?
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Go Crossbones
@crossbones27 (48506)
• Mojave, California
23 May 20
2.45 here.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207432)
• Walnut Creek, California
23 May 20
Yeppers. Cheaper than near the big cities, but still fairly high.
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Go Crossbones
@crossbones27 (48506)
• Mojave, California
23 May 20
@TheHorse Yeah,we always higher than everywhere else no matter part of state.Think Hawaii is only state with higher prices than us. Alaska usually has similar prices to what we have.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207432)
• Walnut Creek, California
23 May 20
@crossbones27 I hadn't known that Hawaii and Alaska were bad too.I amuse myself while driving to Montana in the Summers by watching the prices drop the further away from California I get. By the time I get to Montana, it's generally about $1.10 less than in suburban CA.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (326579)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 May 20
Our prices are lower than they were but we still pay a lot more than you do in the States.
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WorDazza
@WorDazza (15830)
• Manchester, England
24 May 20
@TheHorse In the UK it is tax which leads to high prices. If a litre costs £1 then 58p is fuel excise duty and 20p is Value Added Tax (VAT), both of which go to the government.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207432)
• Walnut Creek, California
24 May 20
Europe always seems a bit high too. Why is that?
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (326579)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 May 20
@TheHorse I guess it's the tax here too.
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snowy
@snowy22315 (171038)
• United States
23 May 20
Yes, but I think they are rising. I just paid 1.71...but it had been about 1.51.
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snowy
@snowy22315 (171038)
• United States
23 May 20
@TheHorse Wouldn't be surprised..
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207432)
• Walnut Creek, California
23 May 20
@snowy22315 Well, I'm all full up and not driving much right now We'll see what happens.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207432)
• Walnut Creek, California
23 May 20
Oh oh. I wonder if they'll start rising here.
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Eva James
@wolfgirl569 (96282)
• Marion, Ohio
24 May 20
It is starting to go up a little bit here again.
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Eva James
@wolfgirl569 (96282)
• Marion, Ohio
24 May 20
@TheHorse That would be a way to check prices out as you go.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207432)
• Walnut Creek, California
24 May 20
I will check my "discount" station over the next few days. Because I don't start "on-site" work until July, I probably won't be driving much in the near future. Unless I go nuts here and head to Montana.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207432)
• Walnut Creek, California
24 May 20
@wolfgirl569 I always do. They're generally $1.10 lower by the time I get to Lewistown Montana.
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12495)
• Ireland
23 May 20
@thehorse Ours have dropped 20% but we aren’t allowed to drive anywhere.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207432)
• Walnut Creek, California
23 May 20
To the grocery store?
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (158221)
• United States
23 May 20
They are up about $.50 per gallon to around $1.99.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207432)
• Walnut Creek, California
23 May 20
That's still a great deal by California standards. But I guess I am glad I filled up the other day.
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (158221)
• United States
24 May 20
@TheHorse Yeah, this supply and demand crap is just that....crap!
Judy Story
@jstory07 (134997)
• Roseburg, Oregon
24 May 20
We paid $1.99 at Costco.
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Judy Story
@jstory07 (134997)
• Roseburg, Oregon
24 May 20
@TheHorse Yes a lot lower.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207432)
• Walnut Creek, California
24 May 20
@jstory07 That's been my impression when I head North, or return home from Montana via Spokane and then Portland.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207432)
• Walnut Creek, California
24 May 20
Sounds good. Oregon is generally lower than California, right?
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Anna
@LadyDuck (460122)
• Switzerland
24 May 20
I have checked two days ago because I have a coupon that expires at the end of this month. The gas here costs 1.44 € per liter. There are 3.7854 liters in one gallon, that means that the price per gallon is € 5.45 that means 5.94$. In Europe it is a lot more expensive than in your country, Switzerland is not even the most expensive.
DianneN
@DianneN (247216)
• United States
24 May 20
We haven’t driven our cars since our trip home from Florida. The prices for premium unleaded were dirt cheap then.
Piyush bhatia
@piyushbhatia1 (11698)
• India
5 Jul 20
There is a difference between gasoline price and crude oil price. The news informs about drop in crude oil price. Due to inflation and added cost of manufacturing the gasoline price goes up.